GE to Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor, Shottermill, 2 August 1871
Title
GE to Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor, Shottermill, 2 August 1871
Title
GE to Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor, Shottermill, 2 August 1871
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor
Date(s)
- 1871-08-02
Place
Shottermill
Letter Content
GE to Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor, Shottermill, 2 August 1871
Text: Cross, III, 140.
I always say that those people are the happiest who have a peremptory reason for staying in one place rather than another. Else I should be sorry for you that you are kept in London -- by Parliamentary business, of course. 340
There is sunshine over our fields now, but the thermometer is only 64'b0ree; in the house; and in the warmest part of the day I, having a talent for being cold, sit shivering, sometimes even with a warm water-bottle at my feet. I wonder if you went to the French plays to see the supreme Got. That is a refined pleasure which I enjoyed so much in Paris a few years ago, that I was sorry to be out of reach of it this spring.
About the Crystal Palace music, I remember feeling just what you mention -- the sublime effect of the Handel choruses, and the total futility of the solos.
Text: Cross, III, 140.
I always say that those people are the happiest who have a peremptory reason for staying in one place rather than another. Else I should be sorry for you that you are kept in London -- by Parliamentary business, of course. 340
There is sunshine over our fields now, but the thermometer is only 64'b0ree; in the house; and in the warmest part of the day I, having a talent for being cold, sit shivering, sometimes even with a warm water-bottle at my feet. I wonder if you went to the French plays to see the supreme Got. That is a refined pleasure which I enjoyed so much in Paris a few years ago, that I was sorry to be out of reach of it this spring.
About the Crystal Palace music, I remember feeling just what you mention -- the sublime effect of the Handel choruses, and the total futility of the solos.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor, Shottermill, 2 August 1871, Complete George Eliot Letters(2026), George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/93598